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NO. CCCXVII. 



.lENCH'S MINOR DRAMA 



CROWDING THE SEASON: 



A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS, 



By E. TRUEBLOOD HABDY, A. M 

COUNSKLOtt AT LaW. 



SEW YORK: 

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122 Nassau Stbebt. 



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VOL. I. 
lion 

2 Faiio 

3 The Lady of Lyon« 
i Richelieu 

5 The Wife 

6 The Honeymoon 

T The School for Scandal 

8 Money 

VOL. II, 

9 The Stranger 

10 Grandfather Whitehead 

11 Richard III 

12 Love's Sacrifice 

13 The Gamester 

U A Cure for the Heartache 

15 The Hunchback 

16 Don Caesar de Bazan 

VOL. III. 

17 The Poor Gentleman 

18 Hamlet 

19 Charles II 

20 Venice Preserred 

21 Pizarro 

22 The Love Chaio 

23 Othello 

■U Lend me Five ShIllingg 
VOL. IV. 

25 Virginins 

26 King of the Common! 

27 London Assurance 

28 The Rent Day 

29 Two Gentlemen ofVerona 

30 The Jealous Wife 

31 The Rivals 

32 Perfection 

VOL. V. [Debts 

33 A New Way to Pay Old 
a Look Before You Leap 

35 King John 

36 Vsrvous Man 

37 Damon and Pythias 

38 Clandestine Marriage 

39 William Tell 

AO Day after the Wedding 

VOL. VI. 
tl Speed the Plough 

42 Rompo and Juliet 

43 Feudal Times 

U Charles the TweUth 

45 The Bridal 

46 The Follies of a Night 

47 Iron Chest [ Fair Lady 

48 Faint Heart Never Won 

VOL. VII. 

49 Uoad to Ruin 

50 Macbeth 

51 Temper 

52 Evadne 

53 Bertram 
5* The Duenna 

65 Much Ado About Nothing 

66 The Critio 

VOL. vin. 

67 The Apostate 
58 Twelfth Night 

I 69 Brutus 

60 Simpson & Co 

61 Merchant of Venice 

62 Old Headsfe Young Hearts 

63 Mountaineers [Ti&ge 

64 Three Weeks after Mar- 

VOL. IX. 

65 Love 

65 As You Like It 
67 The Elder Brother 
63 Werner 

69 Gisippus 

70 Town and Country 

71 King Lear 

72 Blue Devils 

VOL. X. 

73 Henry VIII 

74 Married and Singlt 

75 Henry IV 

76 Paul Pry 

77 Guy Mannerlng 

78 Sweethearts and Wives 

79 Serious Family 

80 She Stoops to Conquer 



VOL. XI. 

81 Julius Caesar 

82 Vicar of Wakefield 

83 I/Cap Year 

84 The Catspaw 

85 The Passing Cloud 

86 Drunkard 
8" Rob Roy 

88 George Barnwell 

VOL. XII. 

89 Ingomar 

90 Sketches in India 

91 Two Friends 

92 Jane Shore 

93 Corsican Brothers 

94 Mind your own Business 

95 Writing on the Wall 

96 Heir at Law 

VOL. XIII. 

97 Soldier's Daughter 

98 Douglas 

99 Marco Spada 

100 Nature' s Nobleman 

101 Sardanapalus 

102 Civilization 

103 The Robbers 

104 Katharine and Petruchlo 
VOL. XIV. 

105 Game of Love 

106 Midsummer Night's 

107 Ernestine [Dream 

108 Rag Picker of Paris 

109 Flying Dutchman 

110 Hypocrite 

111 Therese 

112 La Tour de Nesle 
VOL. XV. 

113 Ireland As It Is 

114 Sea of Ice 

115 Seven Clerks 

116 Game of Life 

117 Forty Thieves 

118 Bryan Boroihme 

119 Romance and Reality 

120 UgoUno 
VOL. XVL 

121 The Tempest 

122 The Pilot 

123 Carpenter of Rouen 

124 King's Rival 

125 Little Treasure 

126 Dombey and Son 

127 Parents and Guardians 

128 Jewess 

VOL. XVII 

129 Camille 

130 Married Life 

131 Wenlock of Wenlock 

132 Rose of Ettrickvale 

133 David Copperfleld 

134 Aline, or the Rose of 
133 Pauline [Killarney 

136 Jane Eyre 
VOL. XVIIL 

137 Night and Morning 

138 .^thiop 

139 Three Guardsmen 

140 Tom Cringle 

141 Henriette, the Forsaken 

142 Eustache Baudin 

143 Ernest Maltravers 

144 Bold Dragoons 
VOL. XIX. 

145 Dred, or the Dismal 
^ Swamp 

146 Last Days of Pompeii 

147 Esmeralda 

148 Peter Wilkins 

149 Ben the Boatswain 

150 Jonathan Bradford 

151 Retribution 

152 Mineral! 

VOL. XX. 

153 French Spy 

1 J4 M'ept of Wish-ton Wish 

155 Evil Genius 

156 Ben Bolt 

157 Sailor of Franc* 

158 Red Mask 

159 Life of an Actress 

160 Wedding Day 



VOL. XXI. 

161 All's Fair in Love 

162 Hofer 

163 Self 

164 Cinderella 

165 Phantom 

166 Franklin [Moscow 

167 The Gunmaker of 

168 The Love of a Prince 

VOL. XXII. 

169 Son of the Night 
nORorv O'More 

171 Golden Eagle 

172 Rienzi 

173 Broken Sword 

174 Rip Van Winkle 

175 Isabelle 

176 Heart of Mid Lothian 

VOL. XXIII. 

177 Actress of Padua 

178 Floating Beacon 

179 Bride of Lamermoor 

180 Cataract of the Ganges 

181 Robber of the Rhine 

182 School of Reform 

183 Wandering Boys 

184 Mazeppa 

VOL. XXIV. 

185 Young New York 

186 The Victim? 

187 Romance after Marriage 

188 Brigand 
189Poorof New York 

190 Ambrose Gwinett 

191 Raymond and Agnes 

192 Gambler's Fate 

VOL. XXV. 

193 Father and Son 

194 Massaniello 

195 Sixteen String Jack 

196 Youthful Queen 

197 Skeleton Witness 

198 Innkeeper of Abbeville 

199 Miller and his Men 

200 Aladdin 

VOL. XXVI. 

201 Adrienne the Actress 

202 Undine 

203 Jessie Brown 

204 Asmodeus 

205 Mormons 

206 Blanche of Brandywine 

207 Viola 

208 Deseret Deserted 

VOL. XXVII. 

209 Americans in Paris 

210 Victorine 

211 Wizard of the Wave 

212 Castle Spectre 

213 Horse-shoe Robinson 

214 Armand, Mrs Mowatt 

215 Fashion, Mrs Mowatt 

216 Glance at New York 

VOL. xxvin. 

217 Inconstant 

218 Uncle Tom's Cabin 

219 Guide to the Stage 

220 Veteran 

221 Miller of New Jersey 
'222 Dark Hour before Dawn 
223 Midsum'r Night's Dream 

[Laura Keene's Edition 
:;24 Art and Artifice 
VOL. XXIX 

225 Poor Young Man 

226 Ossawattomie Brown 

227 Pope of Rome 

228 Oliver Twist 

229 Pauvrette 

230 Man in the Iron Mask 

231 Knight of Arva 

232 Moll Pitcher 

VOL. XXX. 

233 Black Eyed Susan 

234 Satan in Paris 

235 Rosina Meadows [ess 

236 West End, or Irish Heir- 

237 Six Degrees of Crime 

238 The Lady and the Devil 

239 Avenger.or Moorof Sici- 

240 Masks and Faces jly 



{Catalogue continued on third page of cover.) 



VOL. XXXI, 

241 Merry Wives of Windio 

242 Mary's Birthday 

243 Shandy Maguire 

244 Wild Oats 

245 Michael Erie 

246 Idiot Witness '/ 

247 Willow Copse 
■~ People's Lawyer 

VOL. XXXII. 

249 The Boy Martyrs 

250 Lucretia Borgia 

251 Surgeon of Paris 

252 Patrician's Daughter 

253 Shoemaker of Toulouse 

254 Momentous Question 

255 Love and Loyalty 

256 Robber's Wife 
VOL. XXXIII, 

257 Dumb Girl of Genoa 

258 Wreck Ashore 

259 Clari 

260 Rural Felicity 

261 Wallace 

262 Madelaine 

263 The Fireman 

264 Grist to the MUl 
VOL. XXXIV, 

265 Two Loves and a Life 

266 Annie Blake 

267 Steward 

268 Captain Kvd 

269 Nick of the Woods 

270 Marble Heart 

271 Second Love 

272 Dream at Sea 

VOL. XXXV. 

273 Breach of Promise 

274 Review 

275 Lady of the Lake 

276 Still Water Runs Deep 

277 The Scholar 

278 Helping Hands 

279 Faust and Marguerite 

280 Last Man 

VOL. XXXVI. 

281 Belle's Stratagem 

282 Old and Young 

283 Raffaella 

284 Ruth Oakley 

285 British Slave 

286 A Life's Ransom 

287 Giralda 

288 Time Tries All 

VOL. XXXVII, 

289 Ella Rosenburg 

290 Warlock of the Glen 

291 Zelina 

292 Beatrice 
Neighbor Jackwood 

294 Wonder 

295 Robert Emmet 

296 Green Bushes 

VOL. XXXVIII. 

297 Flowers of the Forcrt 

298 A Bachelor of ArU 

299 The Midnight Banquet 

300 Husband of an Hour 

301 Love's Labor Lost 

302 Naiad Queen 

303 Caprice 

304 Cradle of Liberty 

VOL. XXXIX. 

305 The Lost Ship 

306 Country Squire 

307 Fraud and its Viotlnui 

308 Putnam 

309 King and Deserter 

310 La Fiammina 

311 A Hard Sf.'uggle 

312 Gwinnetf Vaughan 
VOL. XL. 

313 The Love Knot [Judg* 

314 Lavater, or Not a Bad) 

315 The Noble Heart 
3l6Corlolanus 

317 The Winter's Tale 
3l8Eveleen Wilson 
319 Ivanhoe 
>0 Jonathan In England 



' KO, CCCXVH. 



FRENCH'S MINOR DRAMA 



^ < i^*-* ^ 



CROWDING THE SEASON: 



A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS. 



By E. TRUEBLOOD HARDY, A. M 



Counselor at Law. 



-.V OF CO,^ 



NEW YORK: 

S A INI U E L FRENCH, PUBLISHER, 

122 ^f A s s A u Street. 



CEOWDING THE SEASON. 



ACT I. 

SCENE I. — Elegant parlor at Mr. Discount's, gas, small table, at either 
side of which are seated Mr. and JIrs. Discount, the former reading a 
newspaper, the latfer knitting. 

Mrs. D. knjihin^ new, my dear ? 

D. No ; nothing that I discover, worth reading to you, dear. 

Mrs. D. Why, is there nothing further about that runaway affair? 

D. [Turning over the paper.] Why yes, here is the continuation of 
the investigation in that case and quite rich I dare say. 

Mrs. D. It's just like you not to notice the most interesting articles 
in the paper ; but as you have to look so closely to the financial col- 
umns, you will have to be excused, I suppose. 

I). Yes ; and moreover, dear, if I overlook them, there is an inevi- 
table discovery in the glance of your scrutiny, that denies the power 
of escape to any spicy little item, however modestly it may hide itself 
in small print and on the inside, and most unreadable and inaccessi- 
ble part of the slieet. Nay — it is nothing to thy discredit, Avife, for 
you must needs watch the gossip market as closely as I do the finan- 
cial, and bless you, I like to hear your prattle over it, as well as ever. 
So, as soon as I have waded through the stock and bank accounts, 
I'll turn to the iniquity, you hinted at, and give you the particulars 
of the forty-ninth days proceedings. 

Mrs. D. Ah ! I thank yon, and we shall have such a delightful, cozy 
evening to ourselves, as soon as Carrie and the boys have left. 

D. They are for the play, I presume. 



4 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

3Irs. I). Yes ; they say that Miss Vaudeville is to play a charming 
new comedy this evening, and they almost persuaded me off. But 
as we have been out so much lately, I thought it better to enjoy a 
little home. 

I). So might you very sweetly, and I am much obliged for the 
decision, for we have really been dissipating too much this month. 
We must take a little rest too you know in the spring, preparatory to 
the v/atering season : do you know it is the thirty-first of ilarch? 

Mrs. I). Time slips apace, yet people as happy as we never realize 
its progress. 

D. No, and I trust we shall never have cause : and why should 
we? We have three good, obedient, clever children, spirited all, 
because they have never had on puritanical lacings, but clever and 
tractable as Morgan colts 

Mrs. D. Nay, I can't allow the darlings to be compared to colts : 
conceive a more refined simile, my dear. 

D. True, it may be a little rough, but they are fine steppers, and 
if they do not travel up to the collar in all their rational duties, then 
I'll explode my own pet system, and acknoAvledge the hopeless fallacy 
of kindness and confidence in the training of children. True that Joe 
is a little tough and larky at times, but he has the right heart at the 
bottom of it all, and will settle down as steady as a iDook keeper by 
and by. Hey ! by Jupiter ! what's this ! Central has gone up like 
a balloon — why my dear, I shall, in the course of a few days, make a 
good year's income, for I made a large investment in that upon the 
recent decline. 

3Irs. D. Ah ! that is glorious ; so there'll be no doubt about Sara- 
toga, or Newport or the Virginia Springs ? 

D. There was none before : whilst well able, and you desire it we 
shall always take a turn at some watering place for the change of air 
and habits. Hah ! but what's this again ! The Pheasant Valley gold 
stock has burst and wilted to ashes. Well, I certainly did a rich 
thing on that to-day. 

Mrs. D. Not made a loss I hope dear. 

D. Not on my own account. 

Mrs. D. Oh ! And I hope you have not been the instrument of 
loss to another. 

D. No, but of one of the narrowest escapes that a man ever had. 

Mrs. D. That is a happy circumstance : may you ever be the agent 
of good fortune. 

D. I will surely never lead a man to his injury, if my poor judg- 
ment can prevent it. That has always been a maxim (f mine, and 
people saiJ I was too honest to live in Wall Street ; but I find I have 
dropped many of the sharpest on my way up the hill of fortune, and 
see no cause to repent. 

Mrs. D. Well what about the gold stock ? 

D. Why, you see, my dear, a neighbor in Wall Street, a good, 
honest minded fellow, but rather tough headed, a bill broker, who 
has by industry and economy, accumulated a pretty little fortune, 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 5 

fell in lately with the agent of this concern, one of the rnoot pla,usible 
fellows in tlie city, and despite his usual extreme caution, was s) in- 
fatuated with his description of the scheme and apparent profits of 
this concern, as to he led to invest a large amount in it. Now, he 
was in to see me this morning, and being more than usually coramu- 
nicative, spoke of his investment, and luckily asked my opinion of it. 
I say luckily, for I do not usually volunteer my opinion,?. I vms 
perfectly aware of the the character of the agent, for I had witnc sed 
his conduct at theaters, watering places and others, where my t;o:^.d, 
puritan neighbor would not be seen for the world. S') I immediately 
advised him, that if he desired to save his money, he had better leave 
the stock witli me for sale on the first real offer. He did so, and the 
stock being quoted high in the paper and many persons looking to it 
for a speculation, I put a quiet notice in my window, and just before 
I closed I had a purchaser cash down at the market quotation. I 
could not urge the bargain, but merely stated that it was left for sale. 
The purchaser will lose enough on it to keep us richly for a year. 

Mrs. D. Why, dear, that would be a two year's income if it were 
yours. 

D. I could make it if I chose ; the sale is not reported, and no one 
at my office, knows anything of the transaction. I merely noted it 
in my pocket-book, and carried the check to the bank at which it 
was payable to secure the money to my credit. In truth I thought I 
would send my neighbor a note to-night informing him of it, for he 
lives not far hence, but now I think I will wait till he learns the 
decline in the morning ; for strauge to say he does not take an even- 
ing paper, as in his economical way he thinks one paper a day is 
enough. He will be astonished when I do report. 

Mn. D. So he will ; but did you say, husband, that you could 
make— could have this money, if you chose? 

D. Yes, certainly : to-morrow I could report the sale at a rate that 
would leave ten thousand dollars in my hands, and no one ever be 
the wiser. 

Mrs. D. And with that we could buy that pretty little country 
scat up the sound. 

D. That is true ; or refurnish our house from top to bottom, car- 
riage, horses and all. 

Mrs. D. That is almost, not quite— you know we have added some 
etceteras since we first set up housekeeping. 

D. But ten thousand would go a long v*ay towards it. 

Mrs. D. That it would ; and some gentlemen, persons of high 
standing and the utmost gentility, nay, moving in the very first 
circles, would save that money. 

D. So they would ; that's worth a thought — what would you 
advise my dear ? {Rise^. She rises and walks. 

Mrs. D Advise dear — why — ten thousund dollars— all in hand — 
and impossible to be know— it surely seems to me very queer— but — 
a— country seat— I have often longed for that little gem on the sound 
— in truth if every gravel upon it's beach were a diamond and every 



6 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

blade of j;ra?s on its sloping lawn an emerald, I could not have 
coveted it more. Why my dear — sh — I'd advise— sh — [Meets his ej/e.] 
that you act like nature's nobleman as you always have, and pay 
every cent. 

Z>. Saving my commission — that's a glorious decision, my dear old 
wife : come to my arms. ['^'lei/ embrace. 

3Irs. D. Not so very antiquated either. 

Enter Carrie, Albert and Joseph. 

Joseph. Why — hello! what's got into the old uns? 

Mrs. D. Joe, you scapegrace, I've just been checking your father 
for calling me old, and have you the impertinence — 

Carrie. No, dear mother, they shall not ; no one can grow old in 
such a happy, cheerful house, where all keep as busy as bees and 
as gay as larks. 

Albert. Aye ! some larks ; Joe and I — especially Joe. 

D. You may say that boy — Joe seems determined to have a degree 
in larking and you are not far behind him : I warrant you will both 
be graduates in less than ten years. 

C. They are already graduates of Yale, pa. 

J. Assuredly, and with the first honors on moral science. 

D. Oh ! I dare say, but Yale is nowhere to Bowery. 

J. Ah ! ha ! ha ! Bert, there's at you for running wid der machine. 
Why he's elected captain of number seven. 

3Irs. D. Dear Bert, will you never leave those vulgar fellows? 

A. Why mother they would'nt let me if I wished to. They say 
no one ever managed an engine as I do, nor kept peace among the 
b'hoys. They would make me a captain whether or no. 

J. Captain Bowery, ha ! ha ! 

D. Shut up, you hurdy gurdy, you rowdy ; you had better be first 
brass rubber to number seven, ithau constantly dangling about that 
actress. 

J. You know I'm writing for the stage, pa. 

D. Well go 3'our ways, you imp, but let Bert alone : and remem- 
ber that your name is Joseph — Joseph Discount, do you hear. 

J. Ay ! Joseph at a discount or Joe Discount. I hear you father 
and heed you too ; inasmuch as I am a Joseph by constraint, for this 
Miss Vaudeville is a very Lucretia. 

Mrs. D. There, say no more about it, my son ; Pa knows you will 
get into no mischief. I hope you procured good seats. 

J. Yes, the best in the dress circle. \_Bcll rin.gs.'\ Ah ! there's the 
bell ; we had best be off, lest some one come in to detain Carrie. 

Enter Servant, ushering in Mr. and Mrs. Plummet, Emma Plummet and 
Theodore Plummet. 

D. [Aside to Mrs. D.] The very man of whom I spoke, but caution; 
not a word ; let him find out his good fortune to-morrow. Welcome 
friend Plummet. 

Mrs. D. I am very happy to see you my dear Mrs. Plummet, and 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 7 

take it very kindly of you to come in the evening in a social way; 
and you Miss Emma — ah ! Carrie you must chew a little disappoint- 
ment about the theater ; but you will be well repaid in dear Emma's 
company. 

C. Kichly, for I love her dearly ! and would rather have her spright- 
ly conversation than half a dozen plays. 

Emma. I fear yon Hatter, dear Carrie, but I know your heart, and 
feel that you speak from the clear foundation of love and truth. 

C. In all sincerity ; for vv-e are both only daughters, and have 
learned to love as fisters ; come take off your bonnet and shawl and 
let's occupy this sofa. 

A. No 1 thank you sis, Miss Emma and I had a sparkling en- 
counter of wits, when we last met, and she decidedly worsted me, 
and I feel too sore to rest so badly whipped. 

E. Yes, his jokes are so creamy, they froth up with great ambi- 
tion under a whipping. 

T. It is most suitable as Albert suggests, and presuming that 
Miss Carrie will make no special objection, I would take the place 
offered to Emma with great pleasure. 

C. Do not presume that you could fill her place in my heart Mr. 
Presumption. 

T. [Aside to her.'] If the truest love and most devoted admiration 
could fill it, it were full long ago, for you know they are yours, 
though you will not respond to them. 

O. Be patient, perhaps I shall yet. I have not consulted Bert 
about you yet : he knows gentlemen better than I. 

T. You are diffident of appi'oaching him on the subject. Do let 
me speak to hfm, or — 

C. Sh ! — Pa' 11 hear you, and then there would be a kettle of fish. 
J. Well, I suppose I shall have to go to the play by myself. 

Mrs. D. Why might not the young folks all go? I'm sure if it is 
so charming a piece, they would spend the evening there as well as 
here : not doubting however their ability to entertain each other. 

J. That's the very idea ; let's all go. 

D. A good proposition ; then we elders can have the room and a 
card table to ourselves, and discuss our special topics with freedom. 

C. I am willing if Emma likes it. 
A. And I with hex approval. 

E. I would be charmed, but you must ask pa. 

J. What, ask pa? now that's a go : he'll consent I warrant, and 
be glad to get rid of your company. . 

F. On the contrary my young friend, it is against our principles. , 

D. What? you don't mean to say tbat you seriously object to the 
young people going to sec an elegant, charming comedy. It is no 
more than a picture of social life, as it should or might be. 

P. I've always regarded it as a bad place for young people. 

D. Do you go yourself ? 

r. Never, I never had the slightest taste for it. 



8 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

D. Then might it not be better to reserve your judgment, until 
you have had some experience of it ? 

P. Tliey are very immoral, very dangerous. 

D. Hovv' know you that ? 

P. I was so taught from a boy. 

D. And were you never at a play ? 

P. But once, and then by stealth ; for my father was very rigid 
with us. 

E. And was it immoral or disagreeable ? 

P. No, on the contrary, very interesting, and it seemed to have a 
good moral. 

D. And were your judgment based on that adventure, of which 
doubtless you have heartily repented long since, you would not pro- 
nounce so absolutely against plays. 

P. That play I have always regarded as an exception. 

D. Be assured it is nothing of the sort. The best dramas are 
characterised not alone for the charm of sprightly conversation or 
action, but for the excel lent principles they are intended to impress 
in an elegant and interesting form. For my own part I never came 
away from a good p'ay without feeling improved and br.iced up in 
my principles. And now if you will permit our young friends to 
accompany Carrie and the boys, I will warrant them against all evil 
consequences. 

P. Oh ! dear no : how can I a deacon ? what would our minister 
think ? 

D. He'd v.'ish he could put on the face to go himself, if he knew 
anything about it. 

Mrs. P. I v^'arrant now dear, so let them go just this once, it will 
be such a gratiiicalion, and Mr. Discount says it is so innocent and 
moi'al : you know Theodore and Emma are not deacon's yet. 

J. Good for Mrs. Plummet, I should say not And you Theodore, 
you rogue you, do yoa pretend (hat you never visit the theatre? 

T. Very rarely, dear Joe, and then I never make a special report 
of it when I go home, knov\dng father's aversion to it. 

E. Oh ! dear, then you hive been broLher ? 
T. I have indeed, more than once. 

E. And we knew nothing of it ? 

T. Very true I never spoke of it. 

C. Surely you have not deceived them all ? 

T. Never ; I was never questioned, and should not have hesitated 
to answer if I had been. any more than I do now. But I certainly 
avoided broaching a subject that I knew to be very disagreeable to 
father. 

P. Saints deliver us, and have I been dreaming at such a rate? 

Mrs. PI. Well, my dear, it does not seem to have had any bad 
effects upon Theodore, nor on these excellent young friends, unless 
perhaps Mr. Joseph is a little wild or so. 

J. Oh! wicked, I confess madam with bitter penitence; a very 
high flier ; I can't help it. You can't stop a gale of wind with an 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 

awning ma'am. My spirits ma'am are a perfect hurricane and there 
is no resisting them. , , -, x c 

3Irs. D. Now did any one ever have such a dear, sweet rogue ot a 
boy ? " His spirits are high my dear Mrs. Plummet, hut they never 
led him to do anything that would shame his doating mother. 

J. There, that's the way she contrives to take all the animation 
and wickedness out of me. What has a rogue to do with honor, 

mother? ., „ , . j- 

C. Hush brother, enough of that, you will spou all by pretendmg 
to be worse than you are. Come we will all go, and I \vill take the 
responsibility. 

J. There's a trump of a girl for you. You are a very Amazonian 
Alexander, sis. for cutting Gordian knots. 

P. Well I shall hold Miss Carrie accountable. 

a Oh! dear, Mr. Plummet, I'll return every package in good 

Mrs. P. I am sure she will, my dear, and they'll all be delighted : 
you know there's no fear of their getting into bad company it they 
are with each other. 

P. True, but you will remember that I protest. What will our 
good minister the Reverend Mr. Sanctity think when he hears of it ? 
Oh ! conscience I , , ^ x i 

J. If Mr. Plummet will go himself, I'll get the orchestra to play 
Old Hundred whilst the stage choir sing it. 

Mrs. P. Oh ! ray son ! 

C. Oh! brother! 

D. Joe, you reprobate, remember sir, where you are. 

J. AVcU, I beg his pardon, but it popped right through before I 
could shut my mouth upon it. 

D. It is time you had on your cloak. 
a We are all ready, so let's go. 

E. I presume ma and pa will have returned home before we can 
get back, so we will bid good bye to our friends, and return directly 
home from the play. Oh ! Carrie, I am so charmed the ice is broken : 
perhaps we shall be able to go often now. 

C. I trust so. , . , T. . T • 

\ Exeunt KiM^ViX, Carrie, Ekjlv, TnEODORBflnt/ Joe ; the Vh-c^mY:^ taking 
leave of Mr. and Mrs. Discount. Mr. Discount then arranges a lahle 
with cards, &c.] ^ ^. ■, 

Mrs. D. I never beheld such a lot of happy faces. Did you ever 
notice, Mrs. Plummet, how well our young people seem to interest 
each other? They seem in fact to take to each other naturally, like 
ducks to water : now we might imagine, were such a fancy to strike 
any of them as to fall in love with each other, that true love would 
display a smooth tide for once. . . , , i 

Mrs. P. Oh ? dear Mrs. Discount, you are surprisingly agreeable 
and kind. Do you know that husband and I both came to the con- 
clusion that you were— that is to say— might be— proud or po, and 
might object to an alliance between our families. 



10 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

Mrs. D. I am proud, madam, as you are p^ain ; proud of my hus- 
band, proud of Carrie, of Bert, and even proud of Joe : proud of our 
iatcgiity, honor and family affection ; and feci congenial with others, 
that possess the same traits and sentiments ; hut by no means vain 
of our fortune or style of livinpc, which might at any time be changed 
by adversity. I should he equally as proud and cherish the like 
sentiments, if I had to wear the same calico frock from end to end 
of the year. 

F. Merciful goodness ! how Mrs. Discount does astonish me. Now 
Mr. Discount, 1 am as much puzzled about the cards, as V was about 
the play. We never have cards about our house, and I have, by the 
advice of the Reverend Mr. Sanctity, always discountenanced the in- 
dulgence in them. But if Mrs. Discount desires to play — though I 
shall have to learn — 

D. Oh ! Mrs. Plummet would enjoy a game I am sure. She and 
I will be partners against wife and you. 

3Irs. P. Yes, my dear, just this once : you know we must play a 
quiet game of — what do you call it, Mr. Discount ? Oh ? a quiet 
game of rubber, I believe. 

Mrs. D. Oh ! dear no. That is not the name of the game. It is 
whist — we say a rubber of whist — the rub being the test game. 

Mrs. P. How ignorant I am. There is another game called "all 
fours, ' ' is there not Mr. Discount / 

D. Assuredly, madam, a very neat little game. 

P. Yes, but we need not play that to-night. It is a real gambling 
game, I've been told. 

Mrs. P. Well then we'll have a game of "whist" now, and the 
"all fours " at our next meeting. 

D. With all my heart, madam, cut for the deal. 

Curtain. 



ACT II. 

SCENE I. — Neat h&Iroom at Plummet's. Mks. Plummet dressed, 
arranglnq her hair at a mirror. Plummet in slippers, pants and dressing 
gown at the washstand, &c. 

Enter Bltty. 

Bettif. Here's the morning paper, sir. 

P. Ah ! let me have it; I must look over the stock list immedi- 
ately. [Takes t.\e paper and sits to read. 

Mrs P. My dear, would you not best finish dressing first? A few 
minutes can not make a great difference in your business. The bell 
has rung for breakfast already, and everything will get cold. 

P. 'Jiie space of a few minutes makes or breaks men sometimes; 
causes happiness or misery. 

Mrs. P. Yes, but whilst waiting breakfast— 



CEOWDINQ THE SEASON 11 

P. Zaunds ! and furies ! my dear, a few hours has well nigh 
broken me: look! see! read! Oh! I am lost ! ruined ! broken! 

Mrs. P. Oil ! what can it be to move, to excite you in such a man- 
ner ? My de ir husband, you look wild ! 

P. I am near to distraction ! will you look ! read ! 

Mrs. P. What this item you mean / " Pheasant Valley gold stock 
sold at the evenin^j board at two and a half. There seems some 
mystery about this stock, much saught of late by shrewd speculators, 
that requires explanation. Doubtless this will soon be forthcoming, 
when the scrip will look up again." Well, dear, what of that? Gold 
stock is not in your line. 

P. Yes, but it is in my line, and I have a large amount invested 
in that very company, and the stock yesterday was worth twenty-live 
dollars a share. Stop ! might it be twenty-two and a half! No, the 
item is in print and the ligare.3 in the list are the same, two and a 
half. I can now realize, my dear, what poor Job suffered. 

Mrs. P. Still, I hope there will be something left. You know my 
dear husband, you always make a great fuss over even a little loss. 

P. Yes, but this is no s nail affair. I sh ill lose largely over a 
j'ears income. In fact, it will make a large hole in my capital. Hold ! 
by the bye ! Discount has that very stock in his possession, to sell 
for me. I happened in to his banking house yesterday, and, with- 
out thought, as it were asked liim his opinion of it. 

Mrs. P. And what did he say .'' 

P. He advised me instantly to leave them with him to be sold to 
the first real offer. Now I wonder if it is possible, he could have re- 
alized before the decline ? No, or he would have certainly reported 
to me last night, if he had not sent a memorandum of the sale before 
closing his business. His house has the reputation of being the most 
punctual and honorable in Wall Street. 

Mrs. P. But the street has altogether a very ugly name, my dear. 
Could he make anything by the affair? 

P. A cool ten thousand. 

Mrs. P. This is dreadful ! horrible ! 

P. Wretched ! miserable ! 

3Irs. P. I can not believe he would be so dishonest. How agreea- 
ble he was last evening, my dear, and I am sure the children must 
have enjoyed themselves delightfully. Did you hear how they 
laughed and chatted when they came home from the theatre. They 
seemed as hearts without an earthly care 

P. Ah ! that's it now ! we sinned in allowing them to go to » 
theatre: and how soon a just retribution has overtaken us. 

Mrs. P. Not for that, I trust in mercy ! 

P. Call for Betty please, my dear; I'll send word of this immedi- 
ately to Discount. 

Mrs. P. Betty ! \Calls. 

Enter Bettt. 
P. Betty, is Theodore down yet? 



12 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

Betty. No sir; I have neither seen nor heard him this morning. 

r. Ah ! he sleeps kite, on account of being up last night. "Well 
Betty, go to his room and tell him I wish to see him immediately. 

Mr.i. P. Never miad, my dear, I'll go myself and call him. 

\E:cmni Mrs. Pl. and Beti'Y. 

P. Was ever a man in such a scrape ? Why that Gilltuft was the 
sweetest talking man I ever saw; and the plans and figures he ex- 
hibited showed a clear profit of fifty per cent without any demands 
on the stockholders or expense of any sort, as plainly as Trinity 
Church shows the time of day. I had better have flung my money 
in the dock than to have contributeJ to fatten such a plausible 
sharper. But how is it with Discount? Perhaps he's interested, 
lie di 1 seem very gracious and lively last night, as if he had done 
something fancy. But it's impossible. If he had been in the scheme, 
he would naturally advise to hold, not to sell. No, his conduct was 
condid and honorable; and he had possession of the scrip scarcely 
long enough to put a notice at his door before the smash took place. 
This Gilltuft will have made enough money by this operation to ren- 
der him independent. I can fancy him now glittering in splendor, 
and making the tour of the v/ate ring places with all the style and 
luxury of a lord. 

Eriier Mrs. Plummet and Betty. 

What's the matter now ? 

Mrs. P. Why. my dear, neither Theodore nor Emma is at home ! 
They must have left the house at a very early hour this morning, and 
where, where can they have gone ? 

P. Gracious heavens ! is this true ? 

Mrs. P. True as the gospel, my dear; Betty is the only person 
that seems able to form any conjecture about them. She says, she 
thought she heard them say something as they were parting with the 
Discounts last night about a trip to Rockaway, but had no idea that 
there was any harm in it, nor that it would take place to-day. 

Belly Yes, sir, and I thought you kuew all aboutit of course: the 
young 1 idy and Mr. Theodore is so very particular. 

P. I know nothing, Betty, they have deceived me ! Oh ! horror! 
misery! despair I what! what shall I do ! [Bell rings.'] There's the 
bell, Betty, sec who it is calling at this hour. [Exit Betty. 

Mis. p. We must try and make the best of it, I suppose, but I 
can not imagine why they should wish to mnke a trip to Rockaway 
so e;\rly in the season, and to start too before breakfast. Perhaps 
there is some matrimony in it. 

V. What, Iheodore and his sister ! 

Mrs. P. Oh ! no ; but perhaps he is privy and consenting, in fact 
aiding an:l abetting the whole affair. You know you have always 
kept the dear chiklrcn at a distance like, and Emma would be likely 
to look to her brother for sympathy and confidence in any affair that 
you would hv. likely to discountenance. 

P. But to run away ! 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 13 

Enter Betty. 
la/biisine*'^ ^^' '^^^^^^ Discount, sir, wishing to see you on particu- 

■f; ^JJ ^^} ponJectured I'm sure. Shew him up here Betty ' 
Mrs. P. Oh ! dear no, not into the chamber ' 
r/; ^^""^^ ask him into the parlor and I'll be down in a moment. 

SatX'cL^r' "' '""■"^"" ^^^ "^ ^°^*^'^^ ^^"-'-^ 

Mrs. P. Why, you have not washed yet. 

P. Oh ! dear, I can^t wait; the occasion is too urgent ; I must be 
«n^'^ f"l^*''-?f^- l^^'!-' on hu cravat.-] There, nevermind the boots 
and coat, he will not mmd seemg me in slippers and gown. 



SCENE SUIFTS. 



SCENE II.— Parlor at ]Mr. Plummet's. Job Discount seated, hat in 
hand; having also a coach whip. 

J. I think I will make him open his eyes wider than he ever did 
before at this time o' day. 

Enter Plummet. 

P. Ah ! my young friend, the occasion is urgent, I know to fetch 
you here so socn; arc they run away? 

J. Unfortunately, sir. but verily. 

P. And what can wcdo? the unfilial girl to leave her doating 
father, whose pleasure it was to grant her every comfort of life that 
our regulations would allow; and to bring her up in the ri-id discip- 
Ime of strict ordinance. Oh ! delusion ! and vanity ! who is the par- 
ticipator of her crime ? j ^ yai 

iii' F.^ ^^nfoitwJiate and most unworthy fraternal relative' That 
bert, sir, is still and sly; not open and candid in his roguery, like 

fZ v?T'f • 1 7^'" TT. ^i"' y^"' Tlieodore. sir. YoS know he 
told >oii he had been to the theatre and other bad places o'nights 
without your approval or knowledge. ' 

P. Yes, he is the criminal abettor. 

rf .?,^^ ^^^^^^ • ^^'^ "^ ^^"'^^ *^^^^ ^^^c Others; for he— perhaps you 
didn't kno^v that part-took off sister Carrie. P^xuapb you 

P. Oh, horror !^ misery ! worse and worse ! a double disgrace ! Oh 
my dear young friend, beware ! beware of such folly ! They'll have 
us all in the papers sure-Bennett, that wretched vulture, and other 
inn!' 'TS'/'' 'P^l.'^l^^o^ "«. «^^er infiiiite columns of Heralds and 
buns and Stars in their most imposmg and startling grenadier type 

J. Aye ! I presume we must make up our minds to cut a swell in a 
few sensation reports; but it will soon blow over, and the news world 
forget us m as deep an oblivion as though we had never existed. 

i^. Oh I I just bethink me, my good young friend ; do you know 



U CKOWDING THE SEASON. 

whether your father, my most esteemed friend, Discount, has sold 
those little stocks, I left with him yesterday? 

J. Oh! you mean the Pheasant Valley ? were those yours? 

P. Yes, my young friend, are they sold ? 

J. How could they be? you only left them at noon, and I didn't 
put up the notice until one o'clock. Wc rarely get rid of a stock like 
that in a few days. 

P. Oh ! dear, but are you certain ? I really thought you might 
have called this m' irnhig about them. I am ruined if they are not sold. 

J. [Aside ] The dickens ! Why here is more than I bargained for. 
I am as certain of it, sir, as I could be of any transaction in our busi- 
ness, for usually I am the lirst to know of these sales, and myself de- 
liver the majority of memorandums of such sales to the owners. My 
fatUer s.iid nothing about the Pheasant Valley before leaving the 
ofilce, nor has he since; and it is simply impossible that they can 
have been sold. Moreover he would have mentioned it to you last 
night, if not to me. But what's out about it ? 

jP. Ah ! have you not seen the paper this morning ? 

J. No, really; Father had it, an<l being hurried otf after Carrie and 
the other runaways, took it with him. 

P. Did he really ? Well, my young friend, it is a loss to me of a 
cool ten thousand at least, to acid to my other misfortunes. So, my 
friend Discount has gone after these iniquitous creatures, these bla- 
zon faced fabricators of newspaper reports. Oh ! that Bennett ! But 
what can wc do? I must hasten after them too. Would you be 
good enough, Mr. Joseph, to step around to Spanker's, the livery sta- 
ble, and tell him to send me the fastest horse he has, a gentle one of 
course, and a light wagon. I must reach Rockaway at the earliest 
moment. 

J. It is rather crowding the season to make an excursion to Rocka- 
way so e.irly in the spring; but necessity knows no law. I have been 
to Spanker's already and father has the only horse in his stable that 
can go more than an omnibus gait. You know he deals in worn out 
hacks; only keeping n >w and then a good horse to embellish his 
stable with some semblance of quality and blood. 

P. And it is half a mile to the next stables at least: what shall 
I do? 

J. Well I could accomodate you myself, if the company would be 
no objection. 

P. How my friend ? Angels preserve you ! 

J. Why, you know, I always keep a fast horse, and back-biters say 
other fast creatures too. Now Blood Morgan can take the i>;xradc out 
of anything that kicks iron, and is so gentle that a girl can drive 
him. If you but saw him of an afternoon jiuss over the Blooming- 
dale road, you'd thinly it was a thunderbolt; yet if you say whoa I 
however gently, it sto])s him like the brakes on an express train. 

P. I am ratiicr skittish t)f fast horses it is {rnc, but I must try 
him pcrforci;. (Jive me a little instruction my young kind friend in 
the management of this noble Morgan steed. 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 15 

J. Oh ! it's as easy as sniokius; a segar. He will stand like a 
statue of varnished mahogany until you are seated, get the reins in 
your hand and speak to him. 

P. Ay ! speak to him ; and what would I say, Mr. Joseph ? 

J. Why just say ''Blood Morgan" or "Morgan" in a spirited en- 
couraging sort of a tone, or cluck thus, or whistle through your teeth 
thus, and draw the reins hack a little smartly so; and you will see 
his ears Hying back, quiok, so, and immediately forward again, and 
feel a jerk as if the world was slipping from under you, hut the reins 
will save you from tumbling out. Then the houses, windows and 
signs will all go into ribbons, and you will have a sensation as if the 
wheels had lost their spokes and the rims were foolishly playing 
around the hubs without any support. You'll have nothing to do 
then but to lay back and guide him. See that you cut through the by- 
streets, for Broadway or any of the principal avenues would be dan- 
gerous. Should you meet obstructions, however, just say "Morgan" 
again in a gentle expostulating manner, and slacken the reins; and 
he will qualify his gait into a gentle, nervous little trot at once and 
take you through safely, and will not wait to be admonished again 
when the coast is clear. When you get out on the road just lie back 
on the reins with all your might, as if you were trying to hold a bull 
team, and see that you don't pitch into anybody; for if you do, I 
needn't remind you that there'll be a smash. So shall he carrry you 
down to Rockaway in an hour and a half by Trinity. 

P. But if I am to pull so hard to make this noble Blood Morgan 
go ; how hard, in the name of heaven, will I have to pull to make 
him stop ? 

J. Why that is a joke ; you must not pull at all. 

P. How then, my friend ? 

J. Whenever you wish him to stop, just speak out whoa ! so that 
he can cleverly hear you, and slack up your reins altogether. 

P. Why that is wonderful. Where I was raised down in Connec- 
ticut, w^e always slacked up the reins and chirked up the horse to 
make him go ; and pulled hard upon him and bawled out whoa ! half 
a dozen times to stop him. 

J. Oh! coldblooded, plough stock, Blood requires a different style; 
aye! and always did: for, do you know the recital of that story 
about Phseton, and what a devil of a runaway and smash up he had 
with his father old Phoebus' s team? 

P. Somethina: perhaps I do faintly remember of such a story told 
in Ovid or Virgil or some of those tough old poets. 

/. Yes, it is in Ovid, and do you know I have often thought the 
horses ran away wdth him simply because he forgot his father's direc- 
tions to slacken the reins w^hen he wanted them to stop. Instead of 
which he pulled back on them as hard as he could. YV'hat youth do 
you suppose could stop such a blooded teim in that way, with spirits 
as rash a3 the flash of the sun reflected from a wobbling piece of 
mirror ? 

P. True, very true ; I think I see the simile. 



16 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

J. Then ho heedful of the precedent, for no horse is incoriiptible. 
But after all, no special caution will be neces.'^ary, for your companion 
will instruct you or drive you either ; if you will have no objection. 

1\ Oh ! !:ir, don't name it ; I couldn't possibly have an objection 
in such a case. 

J . Perha[>s not to the driving, but to the person. 

P. Oh ! impossible ! on snch an occasion I would go with a thief, 
a pick -pocket, a jail-bird, with an ordinary sized highwayman, if he 
had no v>'eapons with him. 

J. But this is a thief, a pick-bosom, a jewel-bird and a highway- 
man of no ordinary character, and goes always fully armed. Nay, 
Bhe is worse than all put together, she is an actress. 

L\ An actress !! Oh ! horror !!! I ride with an actress ! and right 
in the public streets too ! ctiis is too bad ! What ! what ! what would 
Mr. Sanctity say, if he should see it ? And the way leads right by his 
house too. 

J. Aye ! and an excursion to Eockaway too ! But it must be done, 
for I promised last night to drive her down to see her sister, who lives 
within a mile of Rcckaway on the very first opportunity, and as the 
opportunity offered this morning to follow the governor in his pursuit 
after Carrie, I sent her word to meet me here in half an hour, which 
she vvill be punctual to do. 

/-'. Oh ! heavens ! was ever a poor forlorn creature in such a strait ! 
almost broken in fortune, my daughter eloped with a young man, and 
my son with a young lady ; and I, in this distraction, to have to pur- 
sue them in company with a stage player ! Oh ! my dear young friend, 
she'll, she'll, she'll — 

J. She will that I can tell you, and savage enough at that. Why 
if she turns upon you those burning, searciiing eyes of hers, and you 
let tbem get fastened in yours for about two seconds, if you have any 
heart in you she'll drag it out. 

F. Oh, if that were all, I could escape any such calamity by turn- 
ing the other way. 

J. That is all, and easily avoided as you say. I was not so fortu- 
nate however. Ah ! here she is. 

Betty xislien in MiS3 Vaudeville. 

P. {Aside.'] What a splendid creature ! And I to manage her and 
Blood Morgan both, going along a crowded turnpike at a two twenty 
pace, and only two hands to do it with, oh, Mr. Sanctity, what com- 
pany your deacon has got into ! Ah, good morning, m.idam, I trust 
you will excuse my apparel. My young friend informs me that you 
were going to accompany him on a little elopement. 

Miss V. A what, sir / Good heavens ! 

P. No miss, that is to say — 

J. Was about to take her down to see her sister near Rockaway. 

Miss V. You have a very loose tongue, Mr. Discount, which state- 
ment am I to take ? 

J. Whichever you like best. 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 17 

Miss V. It is truo I have a sister living near Rockaway sir, and he 
has been luider i:)romisc for several weeks to take mc down there in 
his wagon as he terms it, v.ith his wing footed Blood Morgan, but until 
within a day or so, the weather v.-ould not admit of the trial. 

P. But you have driven Blood Morgan he says, and are competent 
to manage him. 

31iss V. I see; he does give me the reins occasionally, when we arc 
riding in the Park ; but why ? 

F. Why my good young friend has proposed that I should accom-^ 
pany you to Rockaway instead of himself: that is, I should say, I have 
to go down there on an errand of mercy ; or rather I should say — 

J. That is, he should say, his daughter, Misr. Emma, v/hom you 
eaw last night, has run away with Bert, as y\x11 as Sis Carrie with 
his son Theodore, and he wishes to reach Rockaway, where it is said 
they have all gone, at the earliest moment. So I proposed that he 
should take Blood Morgan and drive you down in my place ; and as 
he expressed some doubts of his capability to manage that Pegasus, I 
told him that if he could not drive you, you would drive him. 

Miss V. Well, supposing us safely over the ferry, I think I could 
manage very well ; for he certainly is as gentle as a dog, though an 
awful goer, like his wicked, and much more unmanageable master. 

[Bell ; Exit Betty. 

J. Well, there he is now, so get off as noon as possible, and I hope 
you may overtake the runav\'ays on the road and upset all their plans. 
I trust you to Providence : you are better than a sparrow, you know. 

J/iss- F. But who ever heard of a Providence f jr actres-^es ? 

P. So I'll just return to my chamber finish my toilet, and be 
with you in a minute. [Exit. 

Miss V. And I will step to the door and have a look at Morgan. 

[Ex:it. 

J. There will be a cozy pair, as ever graced a skeleton vragon, with 
scarcely more than room for one in it. Why he will go through all 
the fires of an anchorite, dreaming the temptations of a Mahomedan 
paradise, with all the remorse of Gethseraane, and if he dares to look 
towards her, his face will paint all the hues from burning scarlet, to 
a mellow cadaverous, quicker than a prism. 

Enter JIr. and Mrs. Plummet. 

Mrs. P. There, my dear, I hope you will be very comfortable. 

P. Oh ! I shall. I am sure. Good bj'-e, my dear, there, you need 
not come to the door. 

3Irs. P. Good bye, dear, and may you bring our poor deluded wan- 
derers back safe and un contaminated. [T/icj/ embrace. Exit Plummet. 

Mrs. P. I trust he will be successful in his mission. Oh ! what a 
deplorable event, my good young friend. He tcdls mc that your un- 
fortunate sister has gone oif to the sxme place with our Theodore. 
Now that would not be so bad an affair, were it not for the clandes- 
tine manner. I am sure I should have offered no objection to an 
open marriage between them 



18 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

J. Nor, as to that matter, not much to the other match, I pre- 
sume. 

Mrs. P. I do not know that Emma could do better, if Mr. Albert 
were only steady. 

J. But'to elope! to run off before daylight, as wild as a pic-nic 
party of brazen faced Auroras. 

iVr?. P. Yes, they are roarers, to cut up such antics, after being 
brought up to such propriety and particularity of deportment. Why, 
I thought 'I'heodore would scarcely glance at a young lady seriously, 
and as for Emma, she was as meek as a nun. But is it so swift a horse 
that you have lent to Mr. Plummet ? 

J. Aye ! madam, swift as a locomotive broke loose from a train. 

Mrs. P. Oh ! gracious ! and will he be safe, do you think ? 

J. Safe, ^ladam ! as an oxteam with a load of hay, or an omnibus 
without an inch of standing room in it. 

Mrs. P. And U the driver so skillful ? 

J. The driver ! What ma'am ? the driver did you say ? 

Mn. P. Assuredly, the person, that is to accompany him. Mr. 
Plummet told me that you gave him every assurance that his com- 
panion was an excellent driver, and could manage your horse almost 
as well as yourself. 

J. And do you really not know who his companion, or driver, as 
you call her, is ? 

Mrs. P. What! her! she! and has Plummet gone off with a 
what did you say ? she a woman ! and that woman not his wife ? oh ! 
heavens ! what a world ! 

J. It is most certain, madam, that he is to drive a lady down to 
Piockaway; it was his only recourse. You see he had to take my 
place, or lose much time; and I was under promise to take her down 
to see her sister, who lives near Rockaway. 

Mrs. P. Oh ! that i^ not quite so bad. Oh ! Mr. Discount I was 
dreadfully shocked , my nerves are so sensitive on such an occasion. 
And who U this lady ? 

J. Only Miss Vaudeville. 

Mrs. P. What ! Miss who ? 

J. Miss Vaudeville ; Kate Vaudeville. 

Mrs. P. What ! the actress ! the notorious creature, that has her 
name posted all over the city ! a publican ! a sinner! [She screams: 

J. A public character, it is true, Madam, but not a sinner, I can 
warrant. 

Mrs. P. A stage player ! they are all sinners. [ Screams and falls 
into his arms. 

J. Oh ! dear Madam, you fiiint, you are weak. 

Mrs. P. Oh ! yes, my good young friend, dreadfully, helplessly 
weak ! Oh ! help me ! tell me what we shall do ! 

J. Oh ! I\Iadam ! I would do anything to soothe, to comfort you; 
but I fear, I am the sinner ; it was I that proposed ; but if you really 
feel so serious about it — 

Mrs. P. How? trust him with such a creature ? a meteor! a con- 
suming fire ! it is like flax and flame. Shell bewitch, she'll fascinate 
him ! then what will become of poor me ? abandoned and desolate ! 



CEOT^T)IXG THE SEASON. 19 

and tie not to tell me who it was, the sneak ! I should be sers-ing him 
right to take my revenge of him. 

/. That will not be necessary, Madam, for I can warrant his inno- 
cent sobriety, so far as relates to Miss Vandeville, not doubting her 
ability to bewitch or fascinate any man, after having performed that 
operadoa on me quicker than it U.ok you to recover from your faint. 
He will have to be smarter, handsomer, and altogether more engag- 
ing than I, if he gains the slightest v/liimper of acknowledgement 
from her. beyond a sigh or two to set him all afire with hopes, never 
to l3e realized. But it is easy for you to knov\- all their proceedings 
at Eockaway, for I can procure from a friend in the course of half an 
hour, a horse and wagon almost, though not quite as fast as Blood 
Morgan. 

Mrs. P. Oh ! relief! Oh ! my dear young friend ! you are so good, 
so clever. I shall be forever indebted to you. Let us follow them 
at once. 

J. Certainly, Madam, I shall be glad to accommodate you. I am 
sure you will feel so imeasy until you see them ; until you recover 
your husband, and restore me to Kate Vaudeville. 

Mn. P. Oh ! don t, don't speak of her, my dear, good, kind yonng 
friend. Now you go down for the horse and wagon, and I will retire 
to make preparations for the journey. 1 vdll bring back the poor, de- 
luded wanderer from the path of propriety myself : and wont I make 
PJummefs ears buzz for this .' Why couldn t he have taken me, and 
let you, Mr. Joseph follow afterwards with this creature, this actress? 



ACT III 

SCE^^nT^ I. — The Ryclcaicau Hotel. Lvxdloiid, Misses Carrie Discotrsr 
and Emma Plummet, Albert Discouxi and Theodore I'lummet. 

Lawl. I'm sure you are all very welcome to Eockaway and the best 
I can do for you. though you really are crowding the season upon 
me. We rarely have many visitors, you know, before June. You 
will have all the rooms however to yourselves, and the best dinner I 
can get up. 

A. Oh I we shall be satisfied, I warrant you, and about the season, 
there is a sort of a joke in that matter, which we shall let you into 
before we leave. Now, wo aid you be good enough to send your cook 
to me : this pic-ni^, so we call it, is intended to be of a special 
character, ha%ing reference to a time honored, a highly venerated in- 
stitution ; and the requirements of the occasion enforce on me the 
necessity of ordering certain dishes, compounded in a very peculiar 
style. 

Land. Oh ! ah ! Jews perhaps ? 

A. Nay, no, neither He-brews, nor the feminine thereof. It is a 
secret, which you can only know, when we get ready to let the cat 
jump. Send me the cook. [Exit Landlord. 

C. Oh ! 1 am sure we shall have such a delightful day. It is more 



20 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

like summer thsn sprin.'^ ; and was not the air soft as wc drove along 
the.ro id ? The birds seemed to appreciate it with all their hearts, 
for ithey sang, as though they would split their merry, loving little 
throat'^. 

F. Yes, and everything was balmy and fresh with sprouting ver- 
dure. How lovely the country is in spring ! 

, A. Well, we are in for a jolly day, and if we do not enjoy 
it, you shall not hav^e to blame your conductor. I wonder how long 
it will be before father comes steaming and fuming along ! Oh ! how 
angry he wi;l be, until he gets in sight of our smiling physiognomies. 
We shall have ample time to pacify all the elders as they come along, 
and then i)artake of a sumptuous repast and a glorious dance, before 
time shall call us back. 

T. Oh ! plenty, an 1 get home in good time for the play. 

A. So you'll go again you think? 

T. Well I guess so, and often whilst Miss Vaudeville is playing. 

A She is really a very c'.iarming player, and apparently as intelli- 
gent and polished off the stage, as she is accomplished on it. Joe is 
awfully gone with her. 

T. And no one of good taste could blame him much. I dare say 
she has many suitors. 

A. Aye ! a train of them ; but she seems to care for none but Joe ; 
because, she says, Joe is sincere and a gentleman, and knows how to 
conduct himself to a lady if she is an actress. 

T. Well, there's something in that. 

C. Yes, I warrant, a vast deal : for the mere matter of choosing a 
profession, that requires her to face an audience every night, should 
not change her feminine nature or delicate demeanor, any more than 
it Avoald change a man's. 

E. You are perfectly right, dear Carrie, and though I know less of 
these matters than you, 1 can feel that a lady can preserve her mod- 
esty and refinement in any position, connected with a legitimate pro- 
fession. I am sure, I coul 1, and I saw nothing done last night, that 
I could not have done, without losing a shade of those nice sensibili- 
ties, by which every lady professes to be troverned. 

C. And yet Kate was witty, jocose and spiightling as the merriest 
imagination could demand. 

Fnter LAiroLORD and Cook. 

A. Ah ! stip here a moment, I would have a private conference 
with you. Can you keep a secret ? 

Look. {Holding out his hand slibj.'] Tliat depends if it's specie. 

A. Well look at this. [flandinfj him a gold piece. 

Cook. Oh ! yes sir, 1 can keep that, until I spend it ; and anything 
(hat backs it. 

A. Ah ! well, I sec yoii arc all right ; now take this slip of direc- 
ti ms, read it carefully, then put it in your kitchen lire, and prepare 
your dinner accordingly. 

Cook. I'll do it brown sir, and to a turn. [Exit. 

Land. A very trustworthy man ; and as you seem to desire some- 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 21 

thing special for dinner, I will let you have your own way about it, 
if the materials can be procured. 

A. So shall we have a jolly time. 

Land. But who is this, driving this way now? Why he looks like 
an oldish, middle aged s^ort of a well to do gentleman, and a lady, 
perhaps his wife : he'll call her so, I warrant. I wonder if he's on a 
pic-nic too. I must step down and welcome him. [Exit. 

A. Oh ! it's father and mother : brush up your most penitent and 
imploring countenances until I smile aloud. Here kneel, all in a 
line, bow your heads and set your eye pumps agoing. Here they are. 

Enter Landlord, Mr. a7id Mrs. Discount. 

]ifrs. D. Where are they ! 

C. Here, dear mother. 

D. You villains and scapegraces to frighten and torment your old 
f.ithcr and mother so ! How dare you to run oflf in this way ? 

A. We confess, you have caught us in the very act ; but do be 
merciful, charitable, lenient in judgment— ha ! ha ! 

[^4// 77'^vj, lawjlx and emhrace the elders. 

D. Why you miserable scamp, wdio could have imagined, you 
would undertake to play so iniquitous and trilling a joke on your old 
father ! and — 

Mrs. D. There my dear, you must forgive hiin ; you know it is a rare 
thi;ig for Bert to be engaged in practical jokes : bnt you. Miss Carrie, 
I thought would have l)een above lending yourself to such an affair. 
Consider into \\o\y undignified a position you place yourself, and your 
doating mother too. 

C. Now pa, don't let her scol I ine much. It was this Mr. Theodore 
and Joe, and, and Berl, and all of us -persuaded each other off on a 
grand pic-nic ; and Joe said he'd contrive it so as to fetch the old 
people too ; but I had no idea he'd be so cruel as to lead you to sup- 
pose that we had run away. What an idea ! And what a scamp to 
deceive you all so ! 

D. Then Joe is at the bottom of it ? 
3Irs. D. Oh! it's Joe is it? 

All. Oh ! it's Joe ! Only Joe ! 

D. Then I suppose he will be posting down here himself pretty 
soon ? 

Mrs. D. Perhaps with that Miss Vaudeville to help him laugh at 
us, the v.icked boy ! 

C. Oh ! no, she would not laugh at anything, that would hurt your 
feelings, or cause you the least mortification ; and as for Joe, he'd 
trick her if he could, to make a laugh, 

E. AVhat a bright hearted, brilliant young gentleman he is. 

A. Yes, but steady as a ferry boat at his business, and quick too. 
Why it would do you good to see Joe run over a string of notes and 
scrips, sort them all and make the calculations, entries and notices 
for each : or tell out money over a bank counter. 

T. And he's full of genuine charity. 

A. What ! Joe charitable ! now that's good ! 

T. It is true nevertheless as you may know. 



22 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

A. Well, I have known him tip a mudsweep a quarter or such a 
matter and laugh at it ; but I never saw a fellow so down as he was 
on a pair of Feejee and Dahomey missionaries about ji month ago. 
He was as angry as a bull and used such language, that I was posi- 
tively ashamed of my brother for once. 

a & E. Oh ! dear ! oh ! dear ! 

C. But what do you know, Mr. Theodore ? 

T. 1 know for one thing, that I am deeply indebted to him for con- 
triving this delightful holiday, which would have been nougbt with- 
out your society. But I was passing along Water street one day and 
saw Joe pick up a poor, ragged, miserable looking girl, that for some 
cause was in a contest with a lot of villainous boys. They were act- 
ually chunking her with stones and bits of wood and dirt, and it was 
in returning their fire, that she slipped, for she was barefooted, and 
fell upon the. pavement. What are you about, says I, Joe? Let her 
alone ; you had better. Not yet, says Joe : and he sat her do^vn, on 
a door sill, walked up to one of the boys and boxed him flat then 
took another the plumbest kick I ever saw, and then foamed around 
like a caged bear, because the others got out of his way before he 
could finish with them. 

61 Why that was right. 

K It was elegant — so he gave the girl a pair of shoes of course. 

T. Yes, and a frock too, for she was positively more than half. — 

a Oh! dear! 

F. Oh! brother! 

■Mrs. D. Oh ! xMr. Plummet ! 

T. Half denuded, was all, I was going to say, ladies ; I was com- 
pelled to express it in some way or stop the narrative. 

AIL Oh ! go on ! go on ! 

2". Well, Joe didn't take her to a Broadway gaiter store, nor a 
fashionable milliner's to fit her out. Who can be the possessor of such 
misery ? was his first exclamation after cooling down to a talking 
point. 

C. And what did she say. 

T Say, why she burst into tears and seemed for about two minutes 
as if she would cry her life out. 

/>. Aye ! a very natural revulsion of feeling, after being so indig- 
nantly angry as she must have been. 

F. Oh ! heavens ! pelted by a lot of rude boys ! 

C. So she said nothing. 

T. Says Joe— well then trot along home, and I'll go with you and 
find out for myself. It is needless to go into minute particulars, but 
he discovered that she was a poor waif, living only for a sort of pro- 
tection, with some of the lowest of the low. 

D. And never said a word to me about this ! and what did he do, 
then? 

T. He was dreadfully puzdcd. as he informed me, for I did not ac- 
company him ; for, said he, "If I had attempted to befriend her there, 
she would have been n)ade the instrument of drawing money from 
me for others ; so I concluded to get Ponder, the drayman, whom I 
knew to be an upright man, to find some good, needy woman, who 



CROWDING TEE SEASON. 23 

would take care of her, whilst she could attend school and learn to 
read and write. ' ' She proved very tractable and grateful, is improving 
rapidly, and by the assistance of the good woman, whom she calls 
mother, and who treats her like her own children, is beginning to do 
much towards her own support, "Which," says Joe, "is the sole end 
and object of the movement." 

Mrs. D. Ah ! what a glorious, good boy ; and we to want to scold 
him so for bringing us out on a delightful pic-nic this elegant spring 
day. I feel more like thanking liim. 

Enter L.^ndlord. 

L. Why ladies and gentlemen, here's another pic-nic party coming 
down the road like a lightning express. If you would like to see a 
fast team just step this way. If it isn't Bonner, it must be Hiram 
Woodruff, But no, it doesn't look like a sporting concern. Why 
bless ray stars ! it's another elderly gent ; and, though she's dressed 
very plainly, I know it's Kate Vaudeville with him. 

C. Why do you know her, Mr. Landlord ? 

L. Well I should think I do : she v,as brought up within a mile of 
this, and has a sister living on the old place now ; one of the very 
best ladies in this neighborhood, or any other. But besides, haven't 
1 seen her playing often enough in York ? Bless my soul, and ain't 
she a smasher too ? why we know Kate hereabouts as well as we know 
our Newfoundland dog. 

Mrs. D It must be Joe with her, I am sure. 

L. Well if Joe is an elderly, starchy, sober-sided, straight faced 
looking gentleman, then it's Joe, she's drivmg, for on my soul, she 
has the reins ; and as fine a piece of horseflesh as ever smoked of a 
frosty morning. 

Mrs. D. Joe is not like that ; but it must be he ; be has disguised 
himself in that antiquated style for some nonsense or humbug. Yes, 
it's his horse — ah ! here they come. 

C. It must be he, for he would not lend Blood Morgan to any one. 

A, Yes, I should think it must be Joe, if it is his horse and Miss 
Vaudeville, for the three are inseparable in the driving business. 

T. Oh ! I presume there is no doubt about it. 

E. They are quite devoted. 

Enter Plummet with Miss Vaudeville on his arm. 

Mrs. D. Oh ! la ! it is not Joe after all, but Mr. Plummet. Gra- 
cious mercy ! how came he to be driving down here at such a furious 
rate with Miss Vaudeville ? 

AIL Oh! it's Mr. Plummet! Goody dear! &c— 

P. Her'^ landlord ! 4 

L. Here Sir ; I was about to wait on you at the stoop, but you W 
were too nimble for me. I hope vou will excuse me, sir. And how^ 
are you Miss Kate ? 

Miss F. Oh ! in fine spirits, my old friend, and I hope you are 
the same. 

P. What I do my eyes deceive me ! why to be sure it is Mr. Dis- 
count and Mrs. Discount, and all the reprobates. Weil did you get 
down in time to prevent mischief? 



24 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

D. Yes, it seems it was all a joke of the young people : and though 
it is taking great liberties withtheir elders, we will try and make the 
best of it, and spend a cheerful holiday. 

p. So we must, so we must, I presume ; but I was terribly angry. 

Mrs. D. And where is Joseph ? and where is Mrs. Plummet ? 

Mm V. You see, Madam, your son had made an engagement to 
bring me down here a month ago, and thinking the occasion fitting, 
sent me word this morning, intending that we should follow you : 
But Mr. Plummet was so desperately afraid that tliey would all be mar- 
ried before he could get here to give his sanction to it, that Mr. Joe 
gave him up his buggy and so here we are. 

Mrs. D. And Avill he not come down here himself ? after sending 
us all down here on this wild goose chase ? that would be rather too 
much of a joke. 

Miss V. So it would, and I warrant you he'll be here before many 
hours : for he said he would certainly come if he had to charter a 
truck to fetch him. How funny he is. 

P. So they are not married, nor going to be. 

A. Not married certainly ; but for the other, the going to be, that 
will depend entirely upon the consent of this most excellent, sweet 
young lady. 

E. Hush, Mr. Bert, you are really impertinent ; and right before 
everybody : there's no pic-nic in that. 

A. Oh! it's all included in the programme. 

T. And I am only waiting to make the best terms for a capitulation 
to this young lady. 

C. I thought you had surrendered at discretion long since. 

T. So I have, but you do not seem inclined to take possession of 
your conquest. 

G. Oh ! we shoot our birds quick as they fly ; but we pick them up 
at our leisure. 

T. You will be sure to find me at the same spot where I fell. 

C. If the crows don't get you. 

T. Nay, you will not allow it, for such a soul does not hold dan- 
glers for sport or exhibition. 

C. You say truly, and do credit to my nice sense of honor, even in 
dealing with danglers ; so you can consider youself dismissed. 

T. Not so long as there's a hook in my gills. 

C. But Miss Vaudeville, what sort of a time did you have with your 
newly assorted beau ? 

D. Oh ! aye ! friend Plummet, how did you get along with Miss 
Vaudeville? Wliat with so sprightly a young lady, and bo swift a 
horse, you must have had your hands full. 

P. Oh ! we managed excellently, and were altogether as comfort- 
able as you could imagine. I had no idea that one of her profession 
could talk so seriously and consistently on philosophical and other 
Bolemn topics. 

L. What she ! Kate Vaudeville ? why she can talk well on any 
subject from a fishing excursion to transcendental theology. 

P. She certainly exhibited intellectual endowments of no ordinary 
character, and a superior cultivation. I would really like for our good 



CROWDmG THE SEASON. 25 

minister, Mr. Sanctity to have an hour's conversation v.ith her on the 
propriety and morality of stage exhibitions ; for I confess she has 
shaken iny conrideuce in former opinions and prejudices to the very 
foundation. 

Miss V. Ah ! Sir, I can not express to you how gratified it makes 
me to have you say so. Not that I value the triumph of my powers 
a particle, but truth and reason must prevail where they have access 
to inteUigence. It is that access, which is denied to our profession by 
the prejudices and prohibitions of many good people against it. But 
Mr Plummet is disposed to dwell upon the serious part of our journey ■ 
and intercourse. Believe me, we had fun enough besides to charac- 
terise it as a jolly excursion. 

B. Oh! ah! 

A. & T. Oh ! Phew ! 

L. I should think you might wherever you were of the party. 

Miss V. You see, Mr. Plummet is not used to fast horses. 

T. Ha ! ha ! I should think not. 

3Hss V. So Mr. Joseph gave him specific and exact directions how 
to manage him. Well, he did very well, until having gathered the 
reins in his hands, he drew back on them and spoke up to jMorgan to 
go — when, depend on it, he would certainly have tumbled over back- 
wards, if 1 had not caught him by the coat : for Morgan starts like a 
\>o9. trom a catapult ; and then moves like a steam engine. 

E Dreadful ! but you caught him ? 

Miss V. Yes, and landed him safe back in his seat ; which by the 
bye, is not over roomy, is it Mr. Plummet ? 

F. Not more than space for two —ha ! ha ! 

All. Ha ! ha ! that's jolly for an old gent — kc. 

D. Ah that Joe, how cunning : he ordered that wagon himself. 

Miss V. He is a suit of clothes full of iniquity. Sir, and deserves a 
vacation in a house of correction. 

r. With you to manage him I think he would be soon tamed. 

Miss V. Oh ! dear ! I am at the head of no such institution, unless 
you allow the term " house of correction " to our theatre. But to 
our journey We did very well after Mr. Plummet v»\is righted, 
though we did run through the streets at a fearful rate, several times 
just avoiding a smash by the breadth of a shaving. Mr. Plummet 
kept his courage, however, except at a particular point in a particular 
street, when I observe«l a cold chill run over his frame, and his eyes 
set tov.'ards the windows of a house, as though he were in expectation 
of being shot from it. 

D. Why, what could possess him ? 

iMiss V. So I asked him. Oh ! said he, did you notice my glance 
at the house ? Mr. Sanctity, our excellent divine lives there. At 
which of course I rallied him well. After we crossed the ferry I took 
the reins for some distance ; then he ventured to drive again : and 
so vv'e alternated all the way down. But v.'orst of all, when I was 
doin:^ some of my most stylish driving and Morgan bounding like a 
thunderbolt past a light curricle, whom should we see in it, but Mr. 
Sanctity himself, and we brushed close enough to shake hands. But 
didn't he stare and open his winkers and wipe his spectacles ? Well 



26 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

if he didn't you may take my place in the play to-night at tho 
theatre. 

D. So he J3 on his way down here too ? Oh ! that Joe ! but I for- 
give him in virtue of that girl. 

Miss V. That what, Sir ? 

D. That girl I say that he has been keeping. 

Sliss V. What ! girl ! keeping ? Oh ! I'm lost ! Oh ! me ! 

[She faints. Albert bears her to a so/a. 

All. Oh ! dear ! what is the matter ? &c. 

P. What a pang ! poor, dear lady, how she takes it to heart. 

Mrs. J). Who would have thought it. One might suppose by her 
conversation, that her sonsi!)ilities were frittered away in gayety. It 
is only a poor child that lie is educating out of charity. 

J/i.ss V. Oh! my! that's all! 

C. She has a true heart I warrant. 

E. As ever lived in a gentle bosom. 

Enlcr Job Discount and Mrs. Plummet. 

L. Why, here is another pic-nic party. To be sure the whole city 
is crowding tlic season on a grand pic-nic. 

Mrs. r. Where i.i Plummet/ Where is my vagabond husband and 
the other runaways ? 

r. Here dear. 

Mrs. P. Just to think. 

J. And wlicre, where is Miss Kate? 

Miss V. Why that must he Mr. Joseph ! [Rising. 

J. Oh! there slie i5. I did not knov/ but that Mr. Plummet had 
dropped you out by the way. You krow he has an aversion to riding 
with actresses. 

Mis<i V. Yes, but he is sonic ^vhat reclaimed from his prejudice. 

J. It isn't so l)a 1 aftor one €^^1^ usc.l to it, is it Mr. Plummet? 

P. Really, my young friend, I must G:Ty you conrerred no ordinary 
privilege i;i bcitowing ui)on me the.society of this most intelligent 
and estimable yoimg lady : and I own to a total conversion from all 
manner of prejudice against her. And Oh ! my dear, you will like 
her so nuicli when you come to know her. 

Mr:. P. Then you were not runnin'? away? 

P. Well it was almost like it, for Mr. Discount's horse brought us 
a living. Look at thi.s coiit. 

Mrs. P. And v/here are tlie other runaAvays ? 

E. Here we all are, ma, not quite married yet, but enjoying our- 
selves as much as the bright day and oLher circumstnnces will admit. 

Mrs P. Oh ! then it is only a pic-nic, and I am really charmed at 
tho occasion, for I have not been to one before since I was a young 
girl. 

P. True, we have stuck rather close to home ; but perhaps now — 
but I say Discount, you didn't happen to reail the morning paper did 
you ? 

V, lllcss my soul, no : why ^. what is out ! 

P, Pheasant Valley is down flat. 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 27 

D, Oh ! is that all ? It will only be temporary, I presume : such 
a stock must soon rally. 

P. What rally after a fall from twenty-five to two and a 
half? 

D. Oh ! dear, you don't moan ? Well it must be a bad affair with 
tliose we hold of yours ; but I shall try to dispose of them on the first 
chance. 

F. There, I was sure you had not sold them : how unfortunate. 
Ten thousand lost at least. A good year's income. 

Z>. Yes, but we must learn not to cry over spilt milk. 

3Irs. P. So we should dear, and I am almost reconciled about you 
and the young lafly. 

J. But Miss Vaudeville, what was the master with you when I 
came in ? I was fearful you might have been hurt, you looked so 
pale : and you were reclining too. 

3Iiss V. Oh ! nothing that concerns your enquiry. 

T. She was only a little sick about Mr. Joseph. 

Miss V. Oh ! Mr. Theodore ! how perfidious I 

J. Oh ! oh ! ah ! now I wonder ! 

Miss V. Are you going crazy, sir ? 

J. Oh ! no ; only going happy. So you had a faint ? 

3Iiss. V. I was a little sick for a moment ; but I have been sick of 
you for a long time. 

/. Well the physician is not far off, that can cure you once for all. 

Miss V. Who is that, impudence ? 

J. The Reverend Mv. Sanctity. I left him about a mile back. 

Miss V. Then you want him to preach my funeral? He would 
scarcely condescend for an actress. 

J. lie'll condescend to officiate for her in a more agreeable ofiice, 
for the proper douceur. 

Miss V. Sh — then, say no more; let's all take a stroll on the 
beach. 

J. [Walking aside with her on his arm.'] I say, I say, Miss Kate, I have 
been long anxiously waiting, as a poor invalid by the pool of Bethesda. 
I have abided patiently, though with little show for hope, until this 
happy accident, the fall nature of which I can not yet fully under- 
stand. I saw and heard enough however to cause mc to smell a mice. 

Mis3 V. Aye ! and I dar^ say, I can recognize the cruel Grimalkin, 
that would be glad to pounce on the poor little innocent on sight and 
shake its life out. Now come you here. Tabby — here— there— now 
crouch you down right here. 

J. But what is this for ? 

Miss V. Do as I tell you. There you need not get ou your bones— 
crouch down, I say. 

J. There then ; anything to satisfy you. 

JA?s V. Now, direct your eyes just here. There do you see ? 

/. Nothing but a small hole in the lloor. 

Miss V. That's it! that's the mouse hole! wait till the mouse 
jumps yShe runs off ot^d out at the door, hefolloioing. 

J. Well she can beat mc at a joke yet. [Exit. 

D. Ah ! wh it a pair of larks ! Did any oao ever see 3U<;h a match ? 



28 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

A. That mouse is pretty well trapped, I should say. "Wliat do you 
think, Miss Emmn,? 

K I confess, I think she will he put to her host tricks to make an 
escape now, 

Fnter Mr. Sanctity. 

L. Why, here is still another party. I fear we will not he ahle to 
provide for so many. 

A. Never fear. Landlord ; they are all of our party. I will provide 
for them. This, ladies and gentlemen is the Reverend Upharsin 
Sanctity, ready at hand to arrest, hind and tie up any runaways and 
carry them hack to Fifth Avenue rejoicing. 

P. Oh ! Mr. Sanctity, we are all, I am sure, exceedingly happy to 
see you ; hut I fear, like the rest of us, you have heen made the sub- 
ject of a practical joke, by these lively, but most estimable young 
ladies and gentlemen. I hope you will excuse them. 

A. In view of the fact that the parson evidently needs a day of rest 
and recreation, and that we shall give him scon a triplicate Avcdding 
all at once. 

C. Now brother you are as bad as Joe : Speak for yourself if you 
please. 

A. And all expenses paid. 

Smdili/. Well my good friends old and young, it is very true, but 
for the interruption of the eighth division of the fourth general head 
of my next discourse ; of a correspondence with Bishop Gorilla of 
Dahcmcy and Eishop Pophagus cf the Fecjec Isl -nds; and a dozen or 
so of calls on some of the mcst respectable ladies of my flock, living 
just in your neighborhood, Mr. Liscouiit, I am sure I should have felt 
it raJ.her a relief than otherwise irom the constant strain cf arduous 
labors. And whenever our young friends, these charming young 
ladies and mcst cstimal>lc young gentlemen feel the inclination to be 
joined in the holy bonds oi' wedlock, I shall be most happy to wait on 
them and be the humble instrument of their happy and congenial 
unions. But I see only apparently two young couples. "Which is the 
thhrd? 

Fnkr Joe Discount and Miss Vaudeville. 

A. Lo! and behold! 

D You know Jce, Parson ? 

S. Y/eil yes sir ; that is, he h your younger promise ? 

J). Just so, a high lark. Everybody l:nous Joe. 

S. And a most cleg?.nt. charming looking young lady v/ith him. 

Mrs. I). Ch! that is iMis,j- 

r. Yes, that ij Miss Vaudeville. 

Jlrs. P. An aclrco3 at — 

S. An actress ! ! a stage player ! ! and with your son, and in com- 
■pany with such erainently respectable members of my flock? Oh! 
mercy ! what will the world come to next? 

C. Ycs,_ l)ut rcllect, Mr. Sancity, Miss Vaudeville is as respectable 
and ladylilio as anyone ; a person of elegant education and the most 
refined mauncvi. 

S. I can scarcely conceive of such an inconsistency, my dear young 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 29 

friend ; but if you say so, I must abide the consideration of my good 
friends your parents and the Plummets. What congregation docs she 
attend V 

C. The Reverend Dr. Bing's, I believe. 

S. Oh ! ah ! a most respectable and refined congregalion, and very 
wealthy. Do you know they contributed ten thousand dollars to the 
Dahomey mission ? 

J. And much to their credit, Parson. Come let's all stroll out upon 
the boach until dinner is served. 

D. So we will : come all. [Exeunt. 

SCENE SniFTS. 

SCENE ir, — The dining rocr.i at Rockaway. A dinner table spreid unth 
various dishes ; also decorated with vases of flowers &c. 

Enter Mr. a7id Mrs. Discount, Mr. and Mrs. PLUMMrx, Carrie, Emma 
Kate, Albkrt aiid Jon Discount, Theodore Plummet, PiEv'd Upiiar- 
8IN oANCTiTY, LANDLORD, AVaitzrs djc. T, ey take i-cats 'it the tabh, Mr. 
Discou.-T at t.'.e upper end. Hr. Plu.mmet at tne hiver end. On t.'ie right 
of AIr. Discount, Mrs. Plummet, IJanctitt, Carrie, end TnEOcoRE; 
on the left Emma, Albert, Kate, Joseph end Mrs. D:scou:;t, in the order 
m u-/iich they are nmned. The Landlord superintends. A iCrge tureen of 
soup infrojit of Mr. Discount. 

L. I really do not knov/ Mr. Discount, v/herc he got the materirJs 
at such short notice, but my cook seems tj have made a very good 
spread by v.hat I lcc in the kitchen. 

D. Oh ! I darj say v/c shall all do very well. Albert says he made 
out the crdcr v.ich great particularity, and he is an excellent caterer, 
i always leave such matters to him v.'hen v.^c travel together. 

[IIJps to the soup. 

Mrs. D ITiat soup has a pretty stout flavoring if one is to judge by 
the aroma. 

D. My dear! 

Mrs. D. Do you not discover it? 

D. Well perhaps a little too spicy. 
P. [lasting. '\ Gad ! i should say so ! 
Mrs. r. [Tading.] Mercy! What's in it! 

J. \ d(.n't know, I)i;t it's the latest agony, I warrant. 
A. IIov/ do you like it, Mr. Sanctity ( 

.J. 1 confess it is rather richer and of a higher flavor than that which 
usually grates my humbb and simple bjard. 
Mri}. 1\ Oh! horrur! it's like poison ! 
a 0:1 ! dear I 

E. its killing! 
Ka e. Av/fiil ! 
T. DrcadlVd I 

D. I must own that it baffles my own best manners. Here land- 
lord, you may order it off and give us the next course. Albert, 1 
think you were decidedly unfortunate in your selection cf soup. 

A. Perhaps, but there's better to come. Wc procured some ele- 
gant fish. [Soup is removed: fish brought on and served 03 befoTf. 



30 CEOWDING THE SEASON. 

Mrs. D. I hope the fish is better ; 'out there io a pungent odor of 
garlick to announce it. I am afraid it will fare like the soup. If it is 
ail like this wc shall not fare very luxuriously. 

D. Mv dear, .try il before you speak. 

Mn. D. i beg to be excused, the odor is enough. 

Mrs. P. [Tadinj.] Oh! misery! I wish I had been satisfied with the 
smell too. 

F. Great heivens ! it almost takes away the breath ! I shall cer- 
tainly never get clear of the garlic ! 

L. It is truly stunning. The cook surely deals in fiery com- 
modities! 

D. Yes, ray mouth is in a blaze too ! 

C. Joe, I am afraid this is a part of your programme. 

J. No, Dert ordered the dinner you know, before I came down. 

D. Landlord, wc c?.n do no more with your fish than with your 
Eoup; but what is in it ? 

A. Perhaps the c.ok has put too much onion and garlic with his 
fish, or <iiJ not fry it enough to expel the aroma. But we have some 
f.mious pastry coming on. 

Mrs. D. I hope no garlic pics. 

A. No, I v/air.mt, not an atom in them. 

Mrs. r. Ah ! the aroma of this is delicious ! 

Mias v. And this exquisite : in fact as sweet as milleflenrs or night 
blooming careus. 

Mrs. D. A most elegant description for you Kate, for this has the 
exact odor of cologne. Was ever such a freak or fancy, as llavoring a 
mcr.t paltry v.iLh cokgne or night blooming cercus ? Why what must 
be the cthc? ingredients? 

i\ Wc shall soon see, Madam, I'll open it. 

[Discount opens Ids pic and out jumps a rabbit. 

D. Well this is most extraordinary ; a live rabbit pie goes be}t)nd 
the utmost 'ocience of Soycr or Francatelli. 

[Mr. Sanctity cpcm anotJier and produces a cat. 

S. Oh ! the wicked beast I Why what docs it all mean ? It is more 
like a masquerade ball thin a pic-uic ; thoi:gh I do not speak from 
experience, ao I never was present at a masquerade ball in my life. 
[T/.c ladies open pie,- , frcpi which spring, birds, doves, canaries cCc. 

Mr". J'. Mercy 1 what next ! 

L. It u tridy beyond uiy comprehension, JIadam. and good fi lends, 
rcrhiips our worthy young friend en the opposite side of the table will 
condcs-jcnd to explain. 

A. Don't be dioheartcned ; the old direction cf a very scicnti'^^cui- 
Binicr siys, first catch your hare. These were certainly caught if not 
pC'.rcctcd in the cookery. 

JJ. Albert there h almost too much of a joke here. 

Mrs. />. Vv'ell I'm r.ure lu me^.ny no harm. 

J. Iley ! v.hat is this in Mr. Plummet ;; pie? look here! ribbons! 
a whole sv/ad of them ! all the coL.rs of the rainbow. 

P. Most true ; tho most extraordinary mitcrial for a pie that I 
ever heard of ; look ! [Pulls out a bt of ribbons. 



CROWDING THE SEASON. 31 

D. Here, we may as well clear off this mess of dry crusts, Land- 
lord ; and if not aire idy prepared, let us have soma dinner witliout 
nonsense or liumbr.g in half an hour. \Ex.H Landlord. 

A. You will be reconciled presently. 

J. To he sure you will, Governor. 

Mrs. D. They didn't mean any harm, my dear, I'm sure: So 
think no more ahout it. 

D. But to treat a party of ladies and gentlemen in this way ! It is 
the height of absurdity, I am ashamed of them ! and must apologise 
to our good friends Mr. and Mrs. Plummet and the Kev'd Jlr. Sanc- 
tity and the ladies for such incalculable and unwarrantable rudeness. 

Enter Landlord. 

S. I am sure I forgive my young friends very cheerfully. 

Mn. P. We feel no malice tovv^ards them I am sure : do wo my 
dear ? 

F. Not the least in the world, but I hope the dinner will soon be 
ready. 

S. It is waning into the middle of the afternoon, and my humble 
me.^1 is usually spread about an hour jTcvious to the present time. 

J. But what is this in Mr. Plummet's pie ? look ! 

P. Vv'hy it seems to be a naj^kin folded about a paper, having much 
the appearance of a commercial account. Why, merciful heaven ! 
what is this.' What ! my eyes grow dim — read it some one and let 
my ears bear witness to the testimony of my eyes [Hands the paper to 
Joe, who hands it to Mr. Sa-ictit//.] 

J. Mr Sanctity suppose you read it, he will certainly believe your 
te-stimony. 

S. It seems nothing more than my friend has suggested, a mere 
mercantile account. [Peads.] Account sales of five liundre;! shares 
of Pheasant ValJeygold mine stock at tu-enly-(ive dollars per share 
for account of Ilosca Plummet, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, 
less com-.iiission one quarter cf one per cent, thirty-one, twenty-live ; 
balance by check on the city bank for twelve thousand fonr hundred 
and cixty-ciglit dollars and seventy-five cents. And here is the check 
inside. That is a paper, which even I can pronounce correct, as 
ignorant as I may l;e of commercial formalities. 

P. And is it really so ? and i ■> there no mistake ? 

D. It is assurcdlv true my friend, just as it reads. It was the first 
thing I ordered Bert to do v.hen he was to have gone to the ofUce 
th'u morning, explaining to him what a surprise it would give you. 
He requested me not to say anything about it. an 1 said ho would 
make the surprise more remarkalle still. I promised ; and this I 
presume, is the denouement ; but it is surely attctided with a vast 
deal cf unnecessary bubble and superfluous humbug. Try and do 
your legerdemain neater the next time, my son. 

J. Aye ! legerdemain is not an inappropriate term ; but, Mr. 
Sanclity, you fjrgot one little item in reading, which on the present 
cccAsion is of some importance, as a plea for the apparently silly 
situation in which Bert and I have placed our ixiends — and ourselves 
worst of all. 



82 CROWDING THE SEASON. 

P. Ha ! an omission ! what can it be ? I hope no discount. 

J. Not a cent. 1 assure you. 

P. Rcarl, what can It be ? 

J. TicaLl the date, Mr. Sanctity. 

S. The first of April. 

All. The first of April ! that explains all . 

P. And to think we should none of us have thought before that 
it was all fools day ! 

Mrs P. And they have been joking us all day l(>ng ? 

Miss V. Yes, indeed, I believe they are humbugs themselves ; this 
Mr. Joseph especially. I shall be afraid to trust a word he says after this. 

J. No you will not. 

A. [2b Emma.] And will you mistrust me too ! 
E. Well — no I can not. 

C. Were you ia this scheme, Mr. Theodore ? 
T. Why, Miss Can ie? 

C. Because, if you were — 

3[iss V. There, no, he was not in it, dear Carrie, and you must not 
look so at him. Joe and I were the real projectors of the scheme, 
though we had to let Albert into it in order to insure its full success, 
and more especially to retain your confidence and Emma's in what 
was going on. 

D. Well Joe and you are a couple of gay larks, I vow. 
Mrs. D. Nay, Joe i.j a high Lirk, but Kate— 

D. She is a lark too, a graduate. 

E. I wish I could sing like her. 

J. Or I wing such llights into the empyrean. 
Miss V. Take care Mister — 

J. I take cure in taking you, as one that has to manage a zebra. 
J/'.ss V. I dare say, I should be striped if I intended to submit to 
you : but von' 11 find me— 

J. I bargamed for a degree of tragic ferocity — 
Miss V. And I for a degree of comic stupidity — 

B. Ila ! ha ! Joe, you are well matched I see : she turns you 
smooth. 

A. Well now. Landlord, apprise your cook that we are ready for 
his real dinner — 

L. At your service, sir. 

A. And now we will have a dance in spite of crowding the season, 
and tljca return to a real dinner, and still leave time to reach tho 
theatre where Miss Vaudeville is advertised to appear to-night. 

[Exit Landlord. 

S. And I shdl have actually spent the day with one of those beings 
usually regarded as so godless. 
[T/iei/ dance a reel or some livcli/ stq) at the end of which the curtain drops.} 

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